Director of Operations, Office of the CTO

Israel Office Tel Aviv, IsraelHybrid

Responsibilities

Support the CTO across internal and external engagements — board and executive meetings, industry conferences, analyst and investor conversations, marketing moments, All Hands, and Town Halls.
Drive customer and partner engagement alongside the CTO, including Customer Advisory Boards, executive briefings, strategic account meetings, and design partner programs.
Own briefing, preparation, and follow-through for the CTO across engagements with the R&D leadership (the organizations under the CTO, CPO, and CSO) and across the company.
Own the narrative arc across these moments: ensure messaging, materials, and follow-through are coherent, on-strategy, and ready for prime time.
Establish and lead the OCTO operating cadence — leadership staff meetings, business and program reviews, planning cycles, and goals / OKR tracking.
Monitor progress against commitments, proactively surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, and drive them to resolution. Operating tempo.
Manage OCTO headcount and budget end-to-end, ensuring we have the right people in the right seats to prove feasibility to leadership and customers and to deliver on the CTO's priorities. Proxy and leverage.
Drive diligence on potential acquisitions, support M&A workstreams, and help shape strategic partnerships and Tenable Ventures activity. What You'll Need: 10+ years of

We translate where the market is going — agentic AI, post-quantum cryptography, AI-driven attacker tradecraft, the next generation of exposure management — into bets that move our roadmap and our business.
Keep the team focused on future-proofing the company against macro shifts such as agentic AI, AI-driven malware, and quantum-era cryptography. Talent and budget.
experience across operations, strategy, product, or program leadership, acting as a strategic peer to senior tech executives (CTO/CPO).
Deep exposure to cybersecurity, infrastructure, or developer tools, with the technical literacy to follow architecture conversations and ask product leaders the right questions.
Outstanding ability to take ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives and turn them into structure, cadence, and outcomes—without becoming a process bottleneck.
Proven knack for toggling between shaping a board-level narrative and zooming in to fix a broken process or unblock a working session in the same hour.